1968 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Benjamin Britten – The Prodigal Son
  • Carlos Chávez – Los visitantes (revision of Panfilo e Lauretta)
  • Peter Maxwell Davies – Revelation and Fall
  • Gian Carlo Menotti – Help, Help, The Globolinks!
  • Ástor Piazzolla – María de Buenos Aires

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Famous quotes containing the word opera:

    “The opera house sparkled with tiers
    And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
    —James Merrill (b. 1926)

    “I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.”
    —Frances Burney (1752–1840)

    “The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
    —Anonymous.

    A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)